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PAIGE AND LEO’S STORY BEGAN IN JUNE TWENTY-TWENTY TWO AT FRESHMAN ORIENTATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS. WHAT STARTED AS A CASUAL DORM HANGOUT TURNED INTO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER. THAT NIGHT NEITHER OF THEM HAD ANY IDEA THEY HAD JUST MET THEIR FUTURE SPOUSE.
AS SUMMER TURNED INTO THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THEY SPENT THEIR DAYS WATCHING MOVIES, GRABBING LUNCH, AND GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER MORE DEEPLY. THEIR FIRST DATE FOLLOWED, ALONG
WITH A BRIEF DETOUR INTO THE FRIEND ZONE (SORRY LEO), BUT LEO WASN’T GIVING UP THAT EASILY. A FEW LIBRARY RUN-INS LATER, AND A VERY PERSISTENT LEO, THEY FOUND THEIR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER AND OFFICIALLY BEGAN DATING.
FROM THERE, THEIR LOVE GREW THROUGH FOOTBALL GAMES, LATE-NIGHT TALKS, PARTIES, VACATIONS, LONG-DISTANCE FACETIME CALLS, AND TRAIL HIKES. ONE OF THOSE HIKES LED THEM TO LAKE FAYETTEVILLE TRAIL, WHERE THEY CARVED THEIR INITIALS INTO A TREE, A QUIET PROMISE OF A FUTURE TOGETHER.
YEARS LATER, LEO BROUGHT PAIGE BACK TO THAT VERY SAME SPOT AND ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM. WHAT STARTED IN A COLLEGE DORM ROOM TURNED INTO A FOREVER KIND OF LOVE.
